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Navigating cultural contexts: exploring the experience of cultural difference for South Asian women in psychological therapy
Get PDFThis study aimed to explore the experience of cultural difference for South Asian women in psychological therapy. Specifically, it was to explore the contextual experience of having therapy derived from a western, individualistic discipline and navigating this with the interplay of South Asian women’s everyday collectivist lives. Previous research in this area and on South Asian women in the field of psychological therapy has been significantly lacking.
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was the chosen methodology for this research. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven UK-based South Asian women who had had at least 12 sessions of exploratory, psychological therapy with a qualified, non-South Asian therapist. The analysis reaped five superordinate themes each with their own set of subthemes: (1) ‘Negotiating Self and Other’ looks at participants negotiating South Asian cultural expectation and responsibility with focusing on their developed individual sense of selves; (2) ‘The Challenge of Power Dynamics’ describes how the experience of power and powerlessness both within therapy and in participants’ everyday lives influenced degree of change; (3) ‘Finding a Sense of Belonging’ describes participants experiencing a reassessment of their identity and cultural belonging; (4) ‘Breaking Barriers’ demonstrates participants challenging stigmatised views to create a greater degree of integration between therapy and South Asian culture; and (5) ‘To Share or Not to Share’ portrays how stigma and judgement contributed to participants negotiating openness both in therapy and in their everyday lives.
The findings are discussed mainly in terms of the way South Asian women negotiate both the therapeutic and collective contexts with consideration of both themselves and their culture. This research invites therapists to be aware of and tailor their work to support these negotiations that clients from more collectivist cultures may face in order to facilitate creating suitably desired, meaningful change in their everyday lives
Geschäftsmodellbasierte Strategiebewertung vor dem Hintergrund der digitalen Transformation von Unternehmen
No full textDigital transformation significantly impacts the economy and labour market, with the highest level of maturity achieved through the introduction of new business models. Business models are crucial for companies, as they determine the commercial success of products and services. Selecting an appropriate business model is a major decision for businesses and poses challenges for strategic management due to a lack of solid evaluation criteria.
This thesis investigates the suitability of existing business model approaches as evaluation methods in strategic management and explores how an appropriate process can be developed for strategy selection. To address the knowledge gap concerning evaluation methods for business models and strategies, analysis criteria are derived. The research identifies requirements for a business model-based evaluation process and assesses the applicability of methods found in publications for strategy selection in general, and specifically in the context of digital transformation.
A business model-based approach for evaluating strategies in strategic management is developed, considering the challenges of modern management in the digital era. This theoretically designed evaluation process serves as the foundation for the empirical study, which aims to understand expert opinions on it. The study investigates how experts evaluate the process in light of digital transformation and what changes they recommend.
The empirical study involves selecting and interviewing business model experts and decision-makers in companies, using a guideline-based expert interview. The data is systematically analysed using qualitative methods. The empirical findings contribute to the evaluation and refinement of the theoretically designed evaluation process.
The research combines theoretical knowledge with empirical results, leading to the presentation of recommendations for the proper application of the evaluation process. The outcome of this study is a theoretically robust and empirically validated business model-based evaluation process for strategic management in the context of digital transformation. The designed evaluation process allows for the assessment of business models and the derivation of potential strategy options
Legal Tech als Motor für die deutsche Wirtschaft – Eine qualitative Untersuchung über den Einflussfaktor der digitalisierten Rechtsdienstleistung auf unternehmerisches Handeln unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Wirtschaftlichkeit bei deutschen Unternehmen
No full textGlobalisation and the associated networking of markets are increasing competitive pressure for companies. As a result, they are facing the challenge of responding quickly and cost-effectively to demand. Opening markets also increases the need for legal regulation in the context of entrepreneurial trade. As a result, companies must comply with more and more legal framework conditions to carry out their activities.
The regulations to be complied with must be implemented and adhered to in strategic decisions and operational business. Otherwise, sometimes high fines will have to be paid.
Small and medium-sized companies characterise Germany. Due to their corporate structure, these companies usually do not have their own legal department or legally trained specialists, so legal advice must be purchased cost-effectively and promptly. If the companies do not succeed in doing so, this can lead to a deterioration in profitability. Companies thus transfer competitive pressure to the legal sector, which must offer its services even more quickly and cost-effectively. Since human resources are limited in capacity, legal tech applications can be good support for meeting this challenge.
Legal tech is a young research area with little knowledge to date. The research focuses on analysing the effect of legal-tech applications on entrepreneurial actions and, thus, on the profitability of companies to fill the research gap.
The foundation of the work emerges from national and international data collection, being condensed by a qualitative study using legal and non-legal expert interviews. From this emerging overall picture, recommendations for action are derived for use that enables legal tech applications to be used with their advantages and mitigate disadvantages.
At the same time, the recommendations for action can improve the prerequisites for use. The recommendations for action developed can be implemented both individually and as an overall concept so that overall advantages can arise for the German economy
Book review: The new mathematics education of new Europe. Alexander Karp (Ed.) (2020) Eastern European mathematics education in the decades of change
No full textBritish politics and the environment in the long nineteenth century: Volume II - Regulating nature and conquering nature
No full textThis collection of archival source material chronicles British environmental politics between 1789 and 1914. This text examines the ways in which environmental issues were managed artistically and socially, as well as politically. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of environmental and political history
Fun for all the family: adapting the Fast & Furious as animated children's television
No full textAs the Fast & Furious franchise has grown in scale and scope, both in its storylines and as a force at the box office, so too has it grown as a transmedia franchise. Beginning in 2015, following the immense success of the fifth and sixth entries in the series, Fast & Furious has expanded its brand to encompass the kind of big-budget paratextual offshoots perhaps more commonly associated with franchises like Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Indeed, this period has seen the development and release of several such spinoffs, including Fast & Furious: Supercharged, a theme park attraction, Fast & Furious Live, a touring stunt show, and Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, an animated series created by DreamWorks Animation for Netflix that first aired in 2019. Following the adventures of a gang of young racers led by Tony Toretto, the teenaged cousin of the films’ protagonist, Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto, Spy Racers presents viewers with a new set of storylines which ostensibly take place in the same fictional world as the live-action movies. This chapter will explore the various ways in which Spy Racers adapts the Fast films in order to satisfy, and take advantage of, the unique conditions of television, animation, and children’s media. In doing so, it will frame Spy Racers in terms of a decades-old tradition of film-to-TV animated adaptations, as well as examining how the show’s implementation of transmedia storytelling exemplifies a uniquely contemporary approach to franchising
Young people on the 'edge of care': perspectives regarding a residential family intervention programme using social pedagogic and systemic approaches- striving for 'humane practice'
Get PDFSupport approaches and interventions to keep families together are major goals in family welfare services. Different service models are used including some targeted at families where the assessment is part of family court pre-proceedings. Although outcomes of family interventions have been extensively researched, there is limited recent research regarding the subjective experiences of young people, their parents/carers and professionals who experience an intervention where they all live together for a short period and where mutually agreed goals and a family programme are co-created. This article presents findings from an exploratory qualitative study into a residential family learning project where families from an English inner-city local authority and professionals reside together for up to a week with engagement in intensive family work. Findings revealed mixed experiences of the intervention with a key theme being that a sense of time and space allowed the families to reflect and listen to each other’s perspectives leading to relationships improving and shifting. However, despite positive changes being made during the intervention sustaining these changes when returning home was often challenging. Findings, which are linked to the systemic idea of punctuation where families saw professionals differently and vice versa, had particular significance for families experiencing social and economic deprivation
Concluding remarks: Interwar dialogues and the patterns of legal change
No full textIn the 2022-2023 academic year, the British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) ran the “Cross-jurisdictional dialogues in the Interwar period” series edited by Professor Yseult Marique and me. This series purports to shed light on little-known legal transfers from the Interwar period (1918-1939) which have played a palpable role in the advancement of the law. After presenting the objectives of the Interwar Dialogues series and explaining why the Interwar period has played an important role in the advancement of national laws and international law alike, this piece reflects on why the heritage of the Interwar period seems buried. Following a brief methodological note, the blog post discusses the patterns of legal change, which emerge from the pieces that BACL has published in the Interwar Dialogues series, and sets the scene for further debate on the BACL Blog and beyond
Performance for 'Fifty Years of Twenty Sites in 'n' Years': Tom Phillip's graphic scores, live improvisation
No full textSouth London Gallery, Clore Studio, artist,Tom Phillips commemorative event: 'Fifty Years of 20 sites in ‘n’ years,’ seminar and commissioned performance event, April 16th 2023. Live performance with ensemble devised and led by Tansy Spinks, playing graphic scores: 'Ornamentik' (1966), solo violin and 'Music for ‘n’ Musicians' (1973), with Kate Ryder (prepared and toy pianos, Tom Mills (theremin), Daniel Ross (Tom Phillip’s studio objects), Nick Rampley (experimental bassoon) and Tansy Spinks (electric violin). Ticketed public event. https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/tom-phillips-20-sites-n-years
Steigender Einsatz von Leiharbeitnehmenden in der Pflege – Eine empirische Fallstudie zu den Auswirkungen auf die Pflegepersonalausstattung nach Einführung von Pflegepersonaluntergrenzen in einer Universitätsklinik
No full textThis study examines the effects of the lower nursing staff limits regulation, which will be legally binding for all German hospitals in 2019, on nursing staffing in university hospitals. The focus is set on the use of temporary workers and the temporary interruption of a binding nursing staffing ratio, caused by the unforeseen occurrence of the Covid-19-pandemic.
A critical review of the literature shows that there is currently no international nursing staff requirement assessment tool that can reliably quantify the actual nursing staff requirement and make a valid statement on the nursing patient outcome, considering the individual patient needs. It is also not to be expected that such an instrument will be available in the near future. The study therefore concentrates on possible solutions as to how hospitals can succeed in maintaining safe patient care despite a nationwide shortage of nursing staff.
The research takes the form of a case study of Europe's largest university hospital, which is located in Germany. The qualitative methodology includes a document analysis of the hospital in question as well as expert interviews with representatives from the sector. In the process of the study it is analysed which action strategies hospitals are already implementing and which they hope for in the future in order to secure nursing staff scheduling in the long term. At the same time, it is examined whether temporary workers are increasingly being employed to compensate vacant nursing positions and to achieve the hospitals' performance targets. In addition, it is investigated how working conditions need to change in order to retain or attract nurses. To round off the holistic approach, the professional-political views of interest groups were included.
In conclusion the study presents possible influences on nursing staffing and shows strategic recommendations for action for research and practice in order to be able to maintain adequate and safe patient care in the future